Gun used in Boulder mass shooting was bought legally, police chief says
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The weapon used in the deadly mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket was purchased legally, Boulder's police chief said Friday. Meanwhile, the district attorney said the suspect would be facing new attempted murder charges in the coming weeks.
Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said the weapon allegedly used by Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa in the shooting, a semi-automatic Ruger AR-556 pistol, was legally purchased in a gun store in the Denver suburb of Arvada, where the suspect lived. The suspect remains held without bail after appearing in court for the first time Thursday to formally be advised of the 10 murder charges and one attempted murder charge he was already facing. Herold also said the suspect had a 9 mm handgun on him, but the police don't believe the weapon was used in Monday's shooting.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.